Parry n.
(N.Z. prison)Paremoremo Prison.
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Big Huey 252: Parry (Pare) (n) Paremoremo Prison. | |
| Staunch 35: I went to Pare to meet the first officer and he’s a classic case of a street-sweeper complaining because the streets are dirty. | |
| Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 135/2: Parry(also Pare) n. Paremoremo (Auckland) Prison, New Zealand’s main maximum-security institution, opened in 1968. |
In compounds
(N.Z. prison) the maximum security section.
| Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 135/2: big Parry the maximum-security section of Paremoremo Prison (East Division) [...] 136/1: in some tattoos, bars appear in the background, and the words d block, parry max or maximum security may also be included. |
(N.Z. prison) the medium or minimum security section.
| Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 135/2: little Parry the medium or minimum-security section of Paremoremo Prison (esp. West Division). |
(N.Z. prison) a style of self-projection - tough, uncompromising, violent, ultra-loyal - adopted by Paremoremo veterans.
| Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 135/2: Parry attitude a style of behaviour [i.e. ‘hard, uptight, obstinate, violent, and staunch’] commonly adopted [...] by those who have been inmates at Paremoremo Prison, particularly in the maximum-security section. |
(N.Z. prison) a fellow veteran of the maximum security section.
| Big Huey 56: Another friend of mine wanted parry comrade tattooed on his back. | |
| Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 135/2: Parry comrade one of a fraternity of inmates from the maximum-security section of Paremoremo Prison, esp. D Bloc. |